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title: But the youth had no pity, and went on blowing, till suddenly the ol… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the youth had no pity, and went on blowing, till suddenly the old magician appeared and asked: “What danger are you in, my son, that you have sent for me?” Who acts: youth, old magician, you. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, with its depende
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 70

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But the youth had no pity, and went on blowing, till suddenly the old magician appeared and asked: “What danger are you in, my son, that you have sent for me?”

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**Who acts:** youth, old magician, you · **What happens:** have, go, blow, appear, ask, danger · **To what, where:** pity, danger, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, old magician, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2435:14:70
# text = But the youth had no pity, and went on blowing, till suddenly the old magician appeared and asked: “What danger are you in, my son, that you have sent for me?”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	nsubj	_	_
24	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	in	in	ADV	RB	_	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the youth | no pity |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | past | the youth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **blow** | gerund | the youth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **appear** | past | the old magician |  |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the old magician *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **danger** *in a quote* |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you | danger and my son *not said here* |  |  |  | in *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **send** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | you |  |  |  | for the old magician *= magician* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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